Module 2

Question 1

Reasoning

Answer 1

a cause, explanation or justification

Question 2

Thinking

Answer 2

a persons ideas or options

Question 3

Clinical reasoning

Answer 3

traditional terminology

Question 4

Professional/Therapeutic Reasoning

Answer 4

inclusive of other areas in which OT practice

Question 5

What is Professional Reasoning in Ot

Answer 5

• how therapists actually think
• Metacognitive process
• Process used to plan, direct, perform and reflect on client care
• performed quickly

Question 6

List cognitive processes underlying professional reasoning

Answer 6

• individual reception, store and organisation of information in frame or scripts
• practitioners with experience have organised and stored scripts as long term memories

Question 7

List frames or scripts development processes

Answer 7

• cue acquisition
• pattern recognition
• limiting the problem space
• problem formulation
• problem solution

Question 8

How does theory and practice relate

Answer 8

practitioners blend theories with their own personal and practice experiences to guide actions

Question 9

List the professional reasoning aspects (8)

Answer 9

• scientific reasoning
• diagnostic reasoning
• narrative reasoning
• interactive reasoning
• procedural reasoning
• conditional reasoning
• pragmatic reasoning
• ethical reasoning

Question 10

Scientific Reasoning

Answer 10

• use of applied logical and scientific methods to understand condition affecting an individual
• can be impersonal or textbook knowledge not specific to client

Question 11

Diagnostic Reasoning

Answer 11

• involves investigation and analysis of cause of conditions
• used to explain condition and select best intervention
• incorporates both personal and impersonal information

Question 12

Narrative Reasoning

Answer 12

• involves the understanding of the meaning of a disease or disability have to an individual
• ised to understand clients perspectives, roles, occupational functioning
• client centred, including past, present and future

Question 13

Interactive Reasoning

Answer 13

• involves the understanding of current supports and attitudes towards service systems
• used to build interpersonal relationship with clients
  and understand environments influences
• concerned with clients likes/dislikes and encourages both verbal and nonverbal communication with client

Question 14

Procedural Reasoning

Answer 14

• involves the understanding of clients conditions, likely prognosis and evidence based interventions
• used to guide evidence based interventions
• use therapy routine thought to be effective with problems identified

Question 15

Conditional Reasoning

Answer 15

• involves the understanding of a clients conditions and how change is conditional upon participation in the therapeutic process
• used to anticipate situations in treatments
• used with more experienced therapists

Question 16

Pragmatic Reasoning

Answer 16

• involves implementing therapy possibilities into current realities
• used to consider how therapy van operate given resources and reimbursement issues
• generally not focused on client or their conditions but rather physical and social aspects that surrounds therapy encounter

Question 17

Ethical Reasoning

Answer 17

• involves a moral conflict with one or more action conflicting with another
• used to analyse an ethical dilemma
• tension often evident as therapist attempts to determine what is right

Question 18

Stages of Professional Reasoning in OT

Answer 18

• formulating impression
• information gathering and planning
• monitoring